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Blowing His Own Trumpet…

This one tickled me;

OAP scares off burglars with bugle blast

BuglerA pair of alleged burglars were sent running by a pensioner who scared them off with a blast on his homemade bugle.

78-year-old Alex Wade lives alone and said that he keeps the instrument by his bed for “emergencies”. Wade, of Coventry, claimed that the men ran off empty handed after breaking into his home through a downstairs window on Wednesday. Continue reading this item…

Führer Daubs for Sale…

Seems several pieces of ‘art’ are due to be auctioned that are, allegedly, by one Adolf Hitler.

Self portrait by Hitler to go on sale

Hitler by John Heartfield

AH by Heartfield

A self portrait is among a collection of paintings which are attributed to Adolf Hitler and will go under the hammer in the UK next month.The work is one of 13 being auctioned by Mullocks, in Shropshire, on April 23, and shows the Nazi leader sitting on a stone bridge dressed in a brown suit but lacking a nose or mouth.

Historical documents expert Richard Westwood-Brookes said the the dictator normally liked to paint flowers and romantic landscapes. Continue reading this item…

‘Jack Frost’ in Hot Water

Yet more nonsense;

Jason ‘sorry’ for Pakistani joke

Sir David JasonActor Sir David Jason has apologised for a joke he made about Pakistanis on Tuesday morning on national radio.

Speaking on Christian O’Connell’s Absolute Radio show the day after the joke was broadcast, the star said it was a “silly little play on words”.

He added: “It seems that someone has taken offence or someone is upset by it and for that of course I’m sorry.” Continue reading this item…

Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe – S1E1

YES!

Charlie BrookerCharlie Brooker is worth the licence fee on his own. Since the end of CB’s Screenwipe I’ve had to rely on my own meandering observations to entertain me. And, since the BBC’s announcement that presenters and on-screen personalities will not be allowed to produce their own shows in future cast a dark shadow of doubt as to whether CB would be allowed to return to our screens.

Thankfully either Newswipe was already commissioned, and allowed to proceed, CB has made arrangement to have the show produced for him, or the BBC have decided against their knee-jerk, reactionary policy (all as a result of the ‘media’ furore over Sachs-gate, and all of it BS IMO). Continue reading this item…

Twouble with Twitter

That’s certainly one take on Twitter, and there are a huge number of folk on there that are just like that comic portrayal.

Naturally, I don’t include myself in that group. [...]